Song rip-offs

Yeah the opening arpeggio isn't the reason the song is amazing but some people just close thier eyes tighly and hold on for dear life with the one argument they have.

If it wasn't for Zep hate, Spirit would be where exactly? Does anyone know any other song by them without googling it? Or having googled it in the past? How many Spirit albums do you own?

I was verbally accosted by the same "did you know" rhetoric at the grocery store one time. And the know it all there had to let me know everything Zep did was stolen. This argument is officially on par with the tabloid news.
 
I happen to own 3 Spirit albums, although they have been packed away in box's with my other albums for many years now. It would be easy for many, many people to tell you that Spirit had a pretty big hit with "I got a line on you". Also, did you realize that Zeppelin used to open for Spirit back in the late 60's. Hmmmmmmm, think that may be where they heard the song Taurus??? I am by no means saying that Spirit is even close to as popular as Zeppelin. But the fact is, Zeppelin stole that riff, end of story, why can't you just admit they did and get on with it. Are you so into Zeppelin that it hurts you to hear anything like this about them?
Also, the lead guitarist from Spirit used to play guitar with Hendrix's first band.
Their drummer has played with Taj Mahal, Rye Cooder and April Wine
Their keyboard player was the keyboard player for Nazerath
Their Bassist was Bass for Firefall and Heart
And Jay Ferguson went on to have his own solo hit's
I would rather go see a concert with all those groups than one with Led Zeppelin, The Honeydrippers, and The Firm any day. As a matter of fact, I would take Hendrix alone over Zeppelin. I might even choose Spirit and The Partridge Family over Pages sloppy old worn out stolen licks.
 
Only problem is people that have seen the first post won't respond, they will think they have seen it already, wish you hadn't done that. If you wan't to, get rid of the first post all together and just leave the second.





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How what?

The two songs sound different enough. Obviously the Zeppelin guitarist has been influenced by this song, but there's a unique enough take on it for me to give Zeppelin credit for it.
 
I started a post asking what song Stairway to Heaven was coppied from. This seemed to lead into a discussion on other coppied songs. Let's see how many coppied songs we can name here. Put song clips if you have them.
I'll start off with one of my favorite songs, "Buffalo Soldier" by Bob Marley being coppied from "The Banana Splitz Theme". I read someone say that Bob must have been stoned one Saturday morning while little Ziggy was watching Saturday morning TV. SounRAB right to me.

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because it SOUNRAB different, Crowquill. What should I say? The frequencies of sound are not exactly the same, and they are sufficiently dissimilar for me to still give Jimmy Page credit for Stairway to Heaven. Maybe he used this song as some sorta template. I have no problem with that, because I enjoy Stairway to Heaven despite how massively overhyped it is.
 
I never said I hated Zep. I was really into them once apon a time ago. When I was a teenager my walls were covered with their posters. I still like many of their songs, just not all of them. Stairway to Heaven may have been the most overplayed record of my time. There used to be a commercial for WXRT in Chicago saying how they never overplayed recorRAB, at the end of the commercial they held up a pizza and said, this used to be Stairway to Heaven. After all is said and done, they still coppied that song from Spirit, the end.
 
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